US companies send a lot of food to third world countries, not for the benefit of the people in the third world countries, but to enhance their own bottom line. The better approach would be to stop flooding the markets of third world countries with our heavily subsidized (subsidized by US taxpayers) agricultural products (making it impossible for local farmers to compete), and to help the people in the third world countries become better producers of their own food.

This is not a difficult thing to do, by the way. Some organizations that are providing micro-loans to farmers in third world countries for things like foot powered water pumps, are helping those farmers to exponentially increase their yield per acre.